Director Roger Winn Gives `Jungle Book` A Wild Touch at Golden High School this week!

Thursday, Friday & Saturday, April 28-30thGolden High School Auditorium

Carter Demink, Zahava Heydel and Audrey Gregory

Kaya Sandlow, Zahava Heydel and Carter DeMink

Audrey Gregory as Shere Kahn

Grace Kern as Mogli and cast

“The Golden High School Stage Right Theater production offers a generally inventive and vigorous telling of the classic tales of Mowgli, the man cub, and his adventures with the creatures of the jungle.

The best-known of the so-called “man-cubs” is Mowgli of “The Jungle Book.” Rudyard Kipling’s 1894 classic depicts a boy trying to find a home in two very different worlds; caught between the animals he loves and the villagers who hunt them.

Expelled from the jungle by a few creatures jealous of his human characteristics, then rejected by superstitious villagers who view his relationship with animals as sorcery, Mowgli searches for his niche – a symbol, perhaps, of the troubled human quest to live harmoniously with nature.”

Adaptor Christina Calvit and Golden High School Theater Director, Roger Winn, have maintained the animal movements and language Kipling invented for his jungle beings, and Winn has made most of his 12 actors into convincing birds and beasts through animalistic depictions.

At the center of the action is Mowgli, played by Grace Carter who makes an appealing and man-cub, progressing skillfully from innocent youth to mature young man.

Among his jungle friends are: Cater DeMink as the kindly old bear Baloo, Audrey Gregory as the fierce Shere Khan, Kaya Sandlow as the wise, swift panther Baghera and Zahava Heydel as the lithe python Kaa.

They make up an enjoyable menagerie.

A play adapted by Christina Calvit from the stories by Rudyard Kipling, directed by Roger Winn, percussion by James Nickell and music composed and performed by Roger Winn, Caitlynn Talty and Julie Spawn. Opens today at The Golden High School Auditorium, 710 24th Street, Golden CO 80401. Opening night: 7 p.m this evening, Friday & Saturday @ 7pm and Sat. 2pm.

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